Minneapolis volunteers Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Siguenza tell MPR News that on Sunday they were following an ICE vehicle when the agents got out, smashed the windows, sprayed them with tear gas, and dragged them to a gulag for eight hours before they were released without charges.

“The first thing I told the agent is that I had my passport in my coat pocket as he was handcuffing me. He brought me into an unmarked SUV and sat me down without buckling and ripped the whistle off my neck and said ‘I’m gonna be needing this later,'” Siguenza said, while O’Keefe, being held in a separate vehicle, was subjected to the agents’ mockery and taunts about her appearance.

“The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock that you could say that to one of her neighbors,” said O’Keefe.

Siguenza said he was subjected to interrogation over who he’s working with and what shadowy malefactors are paying him to fight back against the occupation. “I was shocked when I heard this, I didn’t know this was something they were doing. On the way to the room I saw many people, mostly Hispanic people, in cells crying. We heard people yelling, ‘let me out,’ we heard screaming, we just heard wailing, desperate wailing.” O’Keefe said she heard ICE agents laughing and bantering while the detainees moaned desperately in their cells. “Just the level of disconnection that you have to be able to have to have those light hearted conversations on the backdrop of desperate crying from people who have been torn away from their lives and their families is pretty disturbing to me.”